Sublime

wouldn’t be too sure.’ She paused then and looked at him the way hugely practical women sometimes looked at men, as though they weren’t men at all but foolish boys.

Fifty-fifty equality just isn’t the gold standard for most Parisian women

self-respect

keep the relevant supporting information readily available.

As Charles Moore told me, ‘she was always thinking, thinking, thinking. “What’s right here? What’s the best? What’s the problem? What’s the solution?” But she didn’t have the philosopher’s sceptical mind or pure intellectualism. She wanted results.’19 It was her strong will, iron morals, and belief in the importance of getting results that steered